In 1915 the biggest killer of young Australian males was Gallipoli. Today the biggest killer of young men aged 18-25 years is the road. Tasmania lays claim to Australia’s highest rate of road fatality. Young men are dying in high speed, single vehicle crashes, on lonely rural roads. DRIVE is…
Consisting of anything animal, vegetable or mineral but with a decidedly outdoorsy slant, the comic strip TUNDRA takes an offbeat view of the woodsy side of life. Found in nearly 500 newspapers around the world, TUNDRA springs forth from the mind of Alaskan cartoonist Chad Carpenter. This film offers…
Directed by Sophia Turkiewicz, produced by Rod Freedman. Abandoned in an Adelaide orphanage at the age of seven, Sophia feels betrayed by her mother, Helen. In early adulthood, Sophia still feels angry and resentful. Her mother is now married with two more children. Sophia rejects her new family and…
Roots music icon Chris Strachwitz is a detective of sounds, an archaeologist of deep American music, the antithesis of the corporate mouse music that dominates the American ear. Born a German count, Strachwitz fled his homeland after WWII at 16. In the United States he discovered, and shared, a musical…
The body of an unidentified immigrant is found in the Arizona Desert. In an attempt to retrace his path and discover his story, director Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal embed themselves among migrant travelers on their own mission to cross the border, providing rare insight into the human stories,…
No conventional sports documentary, THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI investigates its extraordinary and often complex subject's life outside the boxing ring.
Duane Michals is a young man of nearly 80 years and one of the American masters of photography. A storyteller, he sometimes incorporates hand-written texts to add another dimension to the meaning of an image. This documentary follows him in his favorite locations (Pittsburgh, New York, Vermont) and explores…
Rita Chiarelli's exploration of Louisiana's Angola Prison, its inmates and the blues music tradition they perform with her.
Pulp Fiction profiles a fantastic avenue of escapism for people of the 20s, 30s, and 40s, who wanted to escape the mundane routine of their daily life in the grips of the depression between the two World Wars, by buying cheap fiction magazines. These writers of the golden age of fiction writing shaped…
On June 18th, 1983 Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space. Her accomplishments came to symbolize women’s achievements in an all male-dominated fields and overnight she became one of the most famous women in American History. The film is the story of Sally Ride a woman space…
Features the crew of HEART Films exploring the backcountry on snowboards, skis and sleds to bring you powder filled adventures. Captioned for the global audience. Check out more at: www.heartfilms.com ■ Starring Takafumi Konishi, Futa Adachi, Yuta Watanabe, Tomohide Inoue, Kazuumi Fujita, Yu…
Combining history, remarkable diving sequences and the US navy salvage operation, this documentary brings to light a top secret WWII weapon and a forgotten event that led to the liberation of Italy.
